[wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the selected text?

[Jamie Holly]

You can do it with a custom plugin for TinyMCE. The key functions would be
mceInsertContent and {instance}.selection.getSelectedText(). My best advice
would be to download the full TinyMCE package and take a look at the advlink
plugin, since this basically does the same thing.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Brian Groce
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:44 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the
> selected text?
> 
> Callum,
> 
> Any luck with this?  I've been wondering the same thing for TinyMCE on
> WP 2.1.x and WPMU 1.1.1 using a plugin and not editing the core code.
> 
> My needs are to highlight text in the editor, click on my custom button
> and then that would wrap the selected text with some code.
> 
> Something like...
> 
> <div class='myClass'>The selected text from TinyMCE</div>
> 
> ...this is easy to do in the "code" editor, but TinyMCE has yet to work
> for me.
> 
> If anyone knows how to go about this, I'd be extremely grateful.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> Callum Macdonald said the following on 3/19/2007 5:46 PM:
> > I've looked at that, but it's launched as a javascript prompt, not a
> > new HTML window. So it exists with all the variables already set.
> What
> > I'm doing is trying to send a command back to the editor from an
> > external window. So I can't figure a way to do it relating to the
> > existing insert link functions.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Callum.
> >
> > Computer Guru wrote:
> >> Can't you refer to the original link insertion dialog for TinyMCE?
> >>
> >> Computer Guru
> >> NeoSmart Technologies
> >> http://neosmart.net/blog/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> >>> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum Macdonald
> >>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:11 AM
> >>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> >>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the
> >>> selected text?
> >>>
> >>> G'day,
> >>>
> >>> I'm working on a plugin that adds a couple of buttons to the
> editors
> >>> (using Photopress as a base) and then pops up a list of links to
> insert
> >>> into the post. However, I can't figure out how to detect if text is
> >>> currently selected in the editor, and if so, wrap the link around
> that
> >>> text. My current code is:
> >>> function pluginInsertLink(linkcode) {
> >>> var winder = window.opener ? window.opener :
> window.dialogArguments;
> >>>     if ( !winder ) {
> >>>         winder = top;
> >>>     }
> >>>     tinyMCE = winder.tinyMCE;
> >>>     if ( typeof tinyMCE != "undefined" &&
> >>> tinyMCE.getInstanceById("content") ) {
> >>>         tinyMCE.selectedInstance.getWin().focus();
> >>> alert(focusElm);
> >>>         tinyMCE.execCommand("mceInsertContent", false, linkcode);
> >>>     } else {
> >>>         edCanvas = window.opener.document.post.content;
> >>>         winder.edInsertContent(edCanvas, linkcode);
> >>>     }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know if the current text is mapped to a javascript
> >>> variable?
> >>> Do I need to pass it to the popup when the popup is opened?
> >>>
> >>> Or does anyone know of another plugin which does something similar?
> I'm
> >>> happy to poke about in that code and figure something out.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Callum.
> >
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